Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Glasgow. Free-playing quartet of bass/ cello/ voice from The Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and Age Of Wire & String.
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.
